Motherboard problem

[DelD]

Looking for a little advice and clarification on what I believe the problem is with the motherboard.

System specs. Pentium 4 2.8 Gig, 478 chipset, ASUS P4C800-E, ATI 9800 video card, 2 Gig ram

I a fairly certain I have a MB problem, but thought I run it by everyone to make sure.

I get the following error when booting up: "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

The computer will boot off of a windows XP CD (I reloaded XP thinking that the HD had gotten corrupted) but when I remove the CD I get the same error.

Hard drives work, I put both in another machine and had no problems. So that only leaves the MB unless I missed something.........??

Next question.......I am thinking of just replacing with another 478 chipset board, but have no idea which is a good board atm. I did alot of reseach when I built this machine and at the time the P4C800-E was about the best for a P4.....I am currently looking at getting the ASUS P4S800D-X as I can not find another P4C800-E. Any advice here would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks for your time

Del D

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm guessing you've already set the BIOS to boot from your hard drives instead of booting off of the CD-Rom drive, right? Are your hard drives recognized within the BIOS? Can you run Hitachi's Drive Fitness Tool

You may also want to swap the IDE ports the CD-Rom is connected to for the one the hard drive(s) are connected to and vice versa.

 

[DelD]

The MB detects the hard drives correctly, they are WD 120Gig drives.

Also will access the HD enough to reinstall XP with no errors, but if I remove the XP CD the MB will not boot.

The hard drives are in the boot sequence, but they are second or 3rd on the list. I know I checked it earlier today, just cant remember where in the sequence they are.

 

[Seekermeister]

Try running CHKDSK /R in the Recovery Console.

 

[Nocturnal]

Try and put the hard drive with Windows as the first boot device. Try disconnecting the CD-Rom from the motherboard as well and then trying to boot.

 

[order66]

I had a very similar problem.Come to find out, it was just a bad floppy that wouldn't let me fully boot to windows.